Michael Hodges

2 months ago | independent.ie | Michael Hodges

Cataclysmic floods took the lives of 224 people and caused billions of euro worth of damage; the worst of it was in smaller towns in the greater metropolitan area and in southern suburbs like Sedavi, where scores of cars were piled up by the water. The city of Valencia itself, along with the many wonderful things in it, was spared and, four months later, is very much open to visitors. There are 300 days of sunshine a year in Valencia; go now and you’re very likely to hit one of them.

2 months ago | radiotimes.com | Michael Hodges

I’ve just asked the man who made 1920s Birmingham the coolest place on the planet if he can do it again with the Victorian East End of London, where his new Disney+ drama A Thousand Blows is set. He’s pretty sure he can. “The show has absolutely all the ingredients for that,” Knight says. “A self-contained world with its own rules, fantastic performances; it looks great and it’s relevant to people’s lives.”At 65, Knight has every reason to feel confident.

2 months ago | radiotimes.com | Michael Hodges

Her TV credits include Susan Harper in My Family and Queen Antedia in Britannia. Her father Sam Wanamaker was a prime mover behind the creation of Shakespeare’s Globe theatre. Here, Radio Times chats with Wanamaker about the original John Nettles detective series, building chemistry and what it's like being a woman in the TV industry. Did you enjoy the original Bergerac? I’ve never seen it. I don’t even know what the theme tune was. But I was with the RSC with John Nettles in 1978.

2 months ago | radiotimes.com | Michael Hodges

Well, someone else is playing him: Damien Molony, the 40-year-old Irish star of Derry Girls, Brassic and The Split, who’s now beside me, looking out over the splendour of Jersey’s Atlantic-facing St Ouen’s Bay. Not quite as fresh-faced as he was a decade ago in Ripper Street, where he played Detective Constable Albert Flight, but not that far off it either, Molony now finds himself the face of this major series reboot.

2 months ago | radiotimes.com | Michael Hodges

“This is not a job, it’s a vocation,” he says, establishing seriousness of intent early in our conversation. “I feel blessed and very honoured to be able to do what I do.”You might say we’re blessed and honoured to be able to watch him. If troubled men are the curse of our age, then Graham is the poet laureate of portraying them. Characters such as the distraught Joseph in the 2019 drama The Virtues or the damaged and desperate DS John Corbett in Line of Duty prowl through our popular culture.